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A perfect example of why I am not a huge fan of the GOP

Before you get any ideas about this, read what I write, before you pass judgement.

But first, the story:

LANSING — Gov. Rick Snyder has added his voice to the chorus of criticism directed at Republican National Committeeman Dave Agema over his latest antigay remarks.

Agema, in a speech at a Republican meeting in Berrien County on Thursday, said that gay people manipulate the system to get free health insurance because they are dying from AIDS at a young age.

Agema cited his experience as a pilot with American Airlines, according to a transcript of his remarks published by the Herald-Palladium of St. Joseph and Benton Harbor.

“I’m a flight attendant,” Agema said. “You have AIDS. You come to me and say, ‘Hey, tell them I’m your lover for the last six months.’ You get on our health care.

“American Airlines spends $400,000 before you die of AIDS. And he goes on to the next, and the next, and that’s what was happening.

“Folks, they want free medical because they’re dying between 38 and 44 years old. It’s a biggie. So, to me it’s a moral issue. It’s a biblical issue. Traditional marriage is where it should be and that is in our platform, so people that are opposed on that issue within our party are wrong.”

Media reports about Agema’s comments brought a storm of criticism and calls for Agema’s resignation. Last March, Agema came under fire for approvingly posting on Facebook an article that said gay people were sexually promiscuous, rife with sexually transmitted diseases and responsible for “half the murders in large cities.”

Okay, first off; Since when did the GOP became the political party that coddles homosexuals? Second of all, I was under the impression that the Republican Party was the party of moral Christian values. At least they were back in the 1980’s, when Reagan was in office. The truth is, if it had not been for the Christian Right in America; Reagan would have never been elected at all. The problem is that the Republican Party establishment is now really pushing the Christian Right out of the party, in favor of an fiscal, Libertarian, Secularist forum of Conservatism. I can tell you this, if they continue to do this; the Republican Party will never win another election.

Do not get me wrong here, I am not in favor of a Christian version of Sharia law or anything silly like that; but good grief, can the Republican Party at least stand for something other than being the party of no? Are we that far gone as a society that even the party that supposedly believes in Conservative values, now is hostile to anyone, who happens to express any sort of Conservative Christian values?

As for the man’s comments, were they offensive? To a homosexual, yes, they were. But, that is the point! Christian moral values are always offensive to those who partake in immorality. Yes, Homosexuality is immoral. The Bible plainly says this in the Old and New Testaments.

It galls me that Snyder and his political correct friends in the GOP have taken this sort of cowardly stand against someone, who dares to speak his convictions against something that Biblically, is considered an abomination to the living God. Shame on Snyder and may he lose his reelection bid. I voted for the idiot; and first he stabbed my Father in the back, and now, he is stabbing the Christian Right in the back. For this, he should not be reelected.

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This is ridiculous. I agree that Christians must take a stand against homosexuality, but unless Mr. Agema has stats to back up his rhetoric, I believe that the opporbrium is justly deserved. To use inflammatory rhetoric like saying that gays want free healthcare because they die earlier is simply counterproductive and makes considervatives and Christians look ignorant–the exact stereotype that they’ve been trying to cast upon us from the beginning.

This is ridiculous. I agree that Christians must take a stand against homosexuality, but unless Mr. Agema has stats to back up his rhetoric, I believe that the opporbrium is justly deserved. To use inflammatory rhetoric like saying that gays want free healthcare because they die earlier is simply counterproductive and makes conservatives and Christians look ignorant–the exact stereotype that they’ve been trying to cast upon us from the beginning.

I guess it all depends on whether you wish for Christianity and/or The Republican Party to be appealing to the unwashed and/or unsaved masses. Don’t get me wrong; I do want people to come to the saving knowledge of Jesus Christ and want people to realize that socialism is a Satanic mindset. But, I am not willing to change my Bible or my conservative convictions to do so!

Christianity and, for that matter, the Republican Party needs to figure out which they want to do — stand for their convictions or take the path of least resistance. Christianity, with the rise of the evangelicals, and their separation from the Fundamentalists, like myself, have already made that move. The Republican Party seems to be following right behind them.